{"50243":{"#nid":"50243","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Distinguished Professor Yurii Nesterov Visiting ISyE This Spring","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYurii Nesterov, the world\u2019s leading authority on the\nefficiency of algorithms for continuous optimization, is a visiting professor\nthis spring at the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)\nat Georgia Tech. On sabbatical from the Center for Operations Research and\nEconomics (CORE) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim,\u0026nbsp; Professor Nesterov is on campus for four\nmonths to work with Arkadi Nemirovski, Hunter Chair in\nISyE. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessors\nNesterov and Nemirovski have a long history of collaboration. For the past\ntwenty-five years they have joined forces to work on various projects, such as\nthe book they co-authored, \u003Cem\u003EInterior-Point Polynomial\nAlgorithms for Convex Programming\u003C\/em\u003E, which develops the theory of\nself-concordant functions to unify global complexity results obtained for\nconvex optimization problems including linear, second-order cone and semi-definite\nprogramming. \u0026nbsp;To\nmany scholars this book is considered the most important contribution to\noptimization theory and applications in the last twenty years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nesterov is the recipient of several awards and\nhonors. Among those are the George B. Dantzig Prize and the John Von Neuman\nPrize, awarded also to Ellis Johnson, Coca-Cola Chaired professor in ISyE, and\nProfessor Nemirovski. The Dantzig Prize, awarded jointly by the Mathematical\nProgramming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, is\nawarded for original research, which by its originality, breadth and scope, is\nhaving a major impact on the field of mathematical programming. \u0026nbsp;The John von Neuman Prize is awarded annually\nto a scholar (or scholars in the case of joint work) who has made fundamental,\nsustained contributions to theory in operations research and the management\nsciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, Professor Nesterov, along with Professor Shapiro,\nhas been invited to speak at the upcoming prestigious International Congress of\nMathematicians (ICM) to be held in Hyderabad, India, August 19-27, 2010. Convening\nonce every four years, the ICM is the largest meeting of mathematicians from\naround the world. Professors Shapiro and Nesterov join ISyE professors\nNemirovski, William Cook, Chandler Family Chair, as well as courtesy appointed\nProfessor Robin Thomas from the School of Mathematics , as among the few to\nreceive this exceptionally prestigious honor. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to R. Gary Parker, ISyE professor and associate\nchair for Graduate Studies, very few invited talks are awarded at the ICM, and\nit is very rare for faculty in such departments as \u201cindustrial engineering\u201d or\neven \u201coperations research\u201d to receive such an honor. \u201cRemarkably,\u201d states\nParker, ISyE \u201chas three sitting faculty who have been so honored and four\ncounting courtesy appointed Professor Robin Thomas.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to the textbook he co-authored with Professor Nemirovski,\nProfessor Nesterov co-authored a subsequent paper, which introduced the theory\nof self-scaled cones to unify the theory of primal-dual algorithms for these\nsame problem classes. Nesterov is also the author of the monograph \u003Cem\u003EIntroductory\nLectures on Convex Optimization\u003C\/em\u003E, which develops state-of-the-art theory at\na level appropriate for introductory graduate courses. In recent work he has\nobtained improved results on the global convergence of a regularized Newton\u2019s\nmethod for unconstrained optimization and established a theory of smoothing that\nallows for the applicability of optimal first-order methods to large-scale\nproblems with nondifferentiable objectives. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Nesterov will be visiting Georgia Tech through April 2010.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Yurii Nesterov, the world\u2019s leading authority on the efficiency of algorithms for continuous optimization, is a visiting professor this spring at the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Tech.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Yurii Nesterov is visitng with Arkadi Nemirovski this spring."}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2010-01-28 16:12:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:12","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"50242":{"id":"50242","type":"image","title":"Left to right: Arkadi Nemirovsk, Hunter Chair in ISyE; Yurii Nesterov, visiting professor from the Center for Operations Research and Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim; and Alex Shapiro, ISyE professor","body":null,"created":"1449175437","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:43:57","changed":"1475894471","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:11","alt":"Left to right: Arkadi Nemirovsk, Hunter Chair in ISyE; Yurii Nesterov, visiting professor from the Center for Operations Research and Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belguim; and Alex Shapiro, ISyE professor","file":{"fid":"128819","name":"IMG_4166.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":3635588,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_4166_0.JPG?itok=D4PgpQpR"}}},"media_ids":["50242"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"8342","name":"Arkadi Nemirovski"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"169275","name":"stewart school of industrial and systems engineering"},{"id":"8343","name":"Yurii Nesterov and Alex Shapiro"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EStewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}